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The 2014 winner of the Yale Drama Series  “The play does not have a tragic ending, though you will be certain that it must.
But it is a tragic story. It is the tragedy of lives lived without hope of deliverance. . . . Â I will leave you to read the play and determine how on earth we get to a satisfying ending to this tragic tale of a woman without a chance.
But that ending is the genius of Nabers’s work, her faith in the ability of people with no chance, to find one.â€â€”Marsha Norman, from the Foreword  The year is 1979 and a serial killer in Atlanta is abducting and murdering young black children.
Against a backdrop of fear and uncertainty, playwright Janine Nabers explores the emotional battleground where an African-American single mother wars with her teenage daughter, each coping in her own way with personal tragedy and loss.
The volatility of their situation is intensified when a severely damaged and devastatingly handsome stranger becomes an integral part of their lives.            Serial Black Face is the eighth winner of the DC Horn Foundation/Yale Drama Series Prize, selected by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Marsha Norman.
At once startling, engrossing, suspenseful, and exhilarating, Nabers’s powerful drama employs a real-life nightmare, the Atlanta Child Murders of the late 1970s, to incisively examine human frailty and the prickly complexities of a mother-daughter relationship. A stunning theatrical work, both thoughtful and profoundly moving, Serial Black Face is richly deserving of this year’s prize.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:128 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:12/11/2015
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- ISBN:9780300211375
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:128 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:12/11/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9780300211375